Alexander William Piluras of Croswell, Sanilac County, Michigan United States was born on November 22, 1928 in Detroit, Wayne County to Ernest Piluras and Demetra Lambrakos Piluras. He had siblings Samuel Piluras, Christopher Piluras, Helen Piluras, and Beatrice Piluras Kosmakos. He married Norene E Piluras and they later divorced. He had children Thomas Ernest Piluras, Lynn Alexis Taylor, DruAnn Piluras Lovelly, and Michael David Piluras. Alexander Piluras died at age 47 years old on July 20, 1976 in Croswell.
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...